I will give her this card, just as a “I’m thinking of you” card. This card was created following the post of the MM435 sketch back in February.

I originally made the card like this:

Then decided I did not like the way the background papers look so I recreated to be the first card. Better, huh? Stamp the images in Memento Black Ink. I did the coloring of the suns and butterflies with a watercolor technique. I used the top of my ink pad by pushing down on the cover of the lid a few times. Ink gets on the top of the lid. When you open it, you can see it. Using a watercolor brush, you add water to the ink and paint with it. I used Thistle and Pixie on the butterfly. I used Canary and Sunset on the sun.

I fussy cut out the butterflies. I used a gel clear glitter pen to add some subtle shimmer to the the words and to trace over the black outlines.

This is a great card for anyone who is a sunshine in your life. I think we’ll use it for the Come and Play Card Buffet. Thanks for stopping by.

Here’s a card I created with RS201 sketch. After 30 inches of snow, I’m ready for Spring to come! This is also a sneak peak for the March SOM.

Here’s the sketch:

It’s an interesting sketch in that you have a few different layers. It balances nicely. Sketches are nice to spark your creativity and I’m grateful for RS201. I’ll post more next month on this card and the techniques used. Have a great day!

Here’s a card I made using the Masking Technique along with some challenges. I did this a while back but forgot to post it. Here’s the card:

Here are the challenges:

The base of the card is made from using the Chocolate paper from the Fundamental Basic Paper pack. Here is where I used the masking technique to make the leaves look like they come out from behind the rose:

On a side note, I used a gold pen to do some dots in the center of the rose and liquid glass along the white highlights to make them pop a bit. Here are some directions for masking are here. You can download the picture on masking and reference when you need to do it.

Some more fun with this card was using the vellum with gold stripes from my stash along with some shimmer trim and gold sequins!